Readers Talk Favorite Books Across Kansas
Michaela Ison Free State sophomore cites Great Expectations by Dickens as a coming of age tale. Nimai MacMillan Baldwin City ninth grader names Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card as science fiction about a boy taken into military training. Earl Schweppe notes The Man Who Invented the Computer about John Atanasoff as a broad history of computing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michaela Ison
Free State
Lawrence
Charles Dickens
Nimai MacMillan
Baldwin City
Orson Scott Card
Ender
Earl Schweppe
John Atanasoff
Jane Smiley
Two new books reveal Russia’s turbulent culture and tragedy
In Odessa Genius and Death in a City of Dreams Charles King traces Odessa from a diverse port to a site of pogroms and cultural memory, linking Eisenstein to urban myths and world economy. Solomon Volkov’s Romanov Riches explores how the Tsars shaped Russian art, noting patronage, censorship, and Dostoevsky’s paradoxical monarchism amid brutal state power.
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Alexander Pushkin
Russia
Odessa
WW. Norton & Co
Charles King
Black Sea
Brighton Beach
King
Brooklyn
Ukraine
Georgetown University
Europe
Caucasus
Sergei Eisenstein
Pushkin
Alfred A. Knopf
Solomon Volkov
Volkov
Dostoevsky
Siberia
Catherine the Great
Derzhavin
Nicholas I
Karamzin
Alexander I
Zhukovsky
Alexander II
Alexander III
Tchaikovsky
Nicholas II
Tolstoy
Romanovs
St. Petersburg
Nicholas I. Volkov
Antonina W. Bouis
Nom de Plume Explores Fame Through Pen Names
Ciuraru surveys famed authors and their pen names from Charles Dodgson to Samuel Clemens and Sylvia Plath in a series of vivid chapters. The book traces why writers used aliases, how identities shaped publishing, and the perceived branding behind concealment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annals of Literature
Carmela Ciurara
Lewis Carroll
Charles Dodgson
Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens
Victoria Lucas
Sylvia Plath
Ciurara
Plath
Ciuraru
Ciarara
Bronte
Anne
Charlotte
Emily
Karen Blixen
Acton
Carrer
Ellis Bell
Isak Dinesen
Carroll
Alice
Wonderland
Oxford
Poet's Showcase in Late Spring Turns to Panic
A poem contrasts blooming roses and singing birds with ominous clouds and sudden destruction. Cries of panic fill the air as Myrliss Hershey of Lawrence confronts a heart wrenching time in late spring.
Poet's Showcase Seeks Area Poets for Submission
The newspaper invites local poets to submit verse for the Poet's Showcase via email. Send works with a subject line Poet's Showcase to danderson ljworld.com, including hometown and contact details.
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Danderson
Ljworld.com
Best-sellers list highlights top titles for week ending June 11
The weekly best-seller roundup features The Hit List by Laurell K. Hamilton at Berkley for 27.95, The Kingdom by Cus sler and Blackwood at Putnam 27.95, and State of Wonder by Ann Patchett at Harper 26.99, among twelve fiction titles and twelve non-fiction titles listed with publishers and prices. The rankings include Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris, Dreams of Joy by Lisa Lee, and Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, with notable authors like James Patterson, Stieg Larsson, and Steve Berry, plus two children’s titles Go the to Sleep and The Greater Journey.
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Laurell K. Hamilton
Berkley
Clive Cussler
Grant Blackwood
Putnam
Ann Patchett
Harper
Little, Brown
Mary Kay Andrews
St. Martin's
John Sandford
Stieg Larsson
Knopf
Jefferson Key
Steve Berry
Ballantine
David Baldacci
Grand Central
Painted Caves
Jean M. Auel
Crown
Adam Mansbach
Ricardo Cortes
Akashic
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster
Ann Coulter
Erik Larson
Pierre Dukan
Laura Hillenbrand
Random House
Tim Tebow
Nathan Whitaker
Simon Mainwaring
Palgrave Macmillan
Mike Moreno
Free Press
Marc Ostrofsky
Razor Media
Bossypants
Tina Fey
Reagan Arthur
James Andrew Miller
Tom Shales
Clarence Darrow’s Reputation as Defender of the Underdog
Lincoln Steffens lauds Clarence Darrow as the attorney for the damned while John A. Farrell portrays a legal career built on saving lives from the death penalty. The book recounts Darrow’s defense of Leopold and Loeb, his stance in the Scopes Monkey Trial, and his shifts from railroad work to mayoral counsel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln Steffens
Clarence Darrow
The
Damned
Darrow
Chicago and Northwestern Railway Co
Chicago
John A. Farrell
Attorney For the Damned
Farrell
Richard Loeb
University of Michigan
Nathan Leopold
University of Chicago
Harvard
Bobby Franks
Ruby
Leopold
Loeb
Ence
Illinois
William Jennings Bryan
John Scopes
Tennessee
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Hershey
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